Anna Khvorostiankina (Visiting Professor)

Anna Khvorostiankina is Associate Professor of Law at the Law School of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Ukraine) and UNESCO Chair of Human Rights, Democracy and European Studies of Yerevan State University of Languages and Social Sciences (Armenia).

She received her Ph.D. in Legal Theory from the Legislation Institute of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2012); a Second Level Masters in “Advanced Studies in European and Transnational Law” from University of Trento, Italy (2006); and an LL.M. from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine (2005). Anna lectures on Constitutional Law, Legal Theory and the History of Legal Thought, and EU Law. In Yerevan, she teaches “Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law in Post-Soviet Space” within the Jean Monnet module in European Union Studies. Her research focuses on the processes of Europeanization of post-Soviet legal systems; recent developments in judicial argumentation in post-Soviet countries; post-communist constitutional identities and particularities of the rule of law in the countries in transition.